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...Boston experiment is modeled on Berkeley's pioneering Graduate Theological Union (TIME, Nov. 6, 1964), which was founded in 1962 by four Bay Area seminaries, has since expanded to encompass eleven divinity schools-six Protestant, five Roman Catholic. The Jesuits' Alma College at Los Gatos and the Franciscan The ology School in Santa Barbara are so pleased with the affiliation that they plan to abandon their existing facilities and move to the G.T.U. campus as soon as feasible...
...course, it is not the corporate function of the university to speak to every public issue, nor even to the vast majority of prevailing social concerns. The fundamental purpose of the university does not encompass any special policy in regard to most contemporary matters, and in its public pronouncements, and corporate activity, the university should refrain from endorsing particular views in the overwhelming number of cases...
Unlike the more extreme statement of Cambridge Vote on Vietnam, which probably will not appear on the ballot, the CNCV resolution is worded to encompass all shades of dovish opinion. One of the six such referendums across the country, it comes during the last nation-wide series of elections prior to the 1968 contest. It may well be watched as an indicator of public opinion...
...years since regular raids on the North were begun, the air campaign has gradually spread from the southern panhandle section of North Viet Nam to encompass nearly every area of the country and nearly every type of target. The number of raids has steadily increased. There were 23,500 missions (usually with two to five planes in each mission) in 1966; so far this year, nearly 22,000 missions have been flown. In addition to the thousands of trucks, railroad cars and sampans that have been destroyed, the five jet airfields bombed and the hundreds of miles of roads...
...billion a year. To date, more than 15,000 firms, ranging from two-man shops to corporations employing more than 100,000 people, have pledged their cooperation. By the end of next year, predicts Project Equality's national director, Catholic Layman Thomas Gibbons Jr., the campaign will encompass 22 states and have a buying potential of $7 billion. Boasts Gibbons: "That's green power...